Blogcritics.org Archive: September 2003

Every year it seems, some movie I see stands out immediately upon seeing it. Most memorably, Magnolia did..

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Tony Blair is looking at bit peaky. Augustine has some suggestions.

Homeowners can spruce up their home for cheap, plus more easily stage it when selling by following these simple, cost-effective tips.
Hard science fiction at its best.

The science is essential to the fiction, but Kress gets the key points across without slowing the pace of a dangerous adventure, with characters who invite interest and real involvement as they hurtle towards an explosive climax.

"The Duchess of Windsor" by Diana Mosley. "At a dinner party in Paris in the 1960s, somebody asked the question:.

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Safely out of rehab, Jack Osbourne is making a TV show for Channel 4.

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The start of another tour, last night's concert webcast, and the forthcoming R.E.M.

greatest hits (from the Warner...

I made it a point to see a show sometime during my weekend in Austin. I checked..

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All instruments need calibration, setting standards against benchmarks. So the same with movies, you need a really crap movie to.

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What do Deep Purple albums have in common with Star Trek movies?

As any trekkie will...

For all of the flailing, flagellating and flapping of wings in the blogosphere, two-thirds of voters - including two-thirds of...

Craggy faced tough punched his way to stardom. My favorite Bronson role was as the only surviving member of the..

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This is, quite seriously, and without a bit of condescension, one of my favorite songs of all time:Three is a..

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"The term Reconstruction referred to the literal rebuilding of the war-ravaged South and the metaphorical rebuilding of the Union," the National Park Service's Brenda Barrett told Congress earlier this year.
Y'know when you call up that shrink in Sydney, wow, wrong movie.

"New Waterford Girl" is a very Canadian movie. It's..

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Every once in a while something comes along that dramatically changes the way we blog - add TypePad to that list.
Saying that the Union went to war to free the slaves gives not just Lincoln, but northerners generally WAY too much credit.

The capitalist in me says why not to this - why should brokers and scalpers be able to get...

Nearly everyday there is news of the legal, strategic, political and other objective aspects of music file sharing - here...

Whine fret whine, speculate, whine some more - movies really are different it would appear, at least so...

of The Doors, who are back on the...

US rapper Tah Tah, aka Tyran Moore, handed himself over to NYPD last week after a three-hour standoff at a...

A great new Slim Harpo (born James Moore, 1924) collection is the first I have received in connection with the...

One of the big 80's hair bands, Poison, played on Sunday (in my hometown, Detroit), and Monday - even though...

ABC News' political blog "The Note" has some provocative thoughts today governing politics and the media over the next...

Blazingly keen mind, excellent writer, blogger to the stars, and internationally known hottie, Virginia Postrel has a new...

Jeff Tweedy is still trying to break your heart, and he s doing it with a tight live show that showcases the genius of Yankee Hotel Foxtrot and the heart of Being There.
Live in concert, R.E.

M. breathes new vitality into songs from their whole career and shows that they continued to write great songs across the twenty years and 11 albums after Murmur.

I quit the latest incarnation of my radio show Cool Tunes nearly a year ago (already!

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I often debate with each new read, if I should tackle a fictional or a factual book. This week, I..

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As a proud father of a 5 year old, I took special notice to this 3 CD box..

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I'm in the mood to make unqualified blanket statements today because I can. So here's one: Abbey Road is the.

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Continuing my stomp through musical history in oversized muddy boots, I hereby declare Blonde On Blonde the greatest Dylan album.

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TAPPED, the online blog for the liberal magazine The American Prospect, has an article linked today about the latest.

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Jaz and the boys are back to show the young uns' how to make angry industrial metal.

Instead of...

Over the Labor Day weekend, my 12-year-old daughter told me, "Dad, nanotech is cool and everything, but your blog is kind of boring."
This is a 2 video and 1 documentary DVD from this band of Mississippi blues merchants..

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GE's NBC snags the bride Universal in deal with Vivendi: NBC and Vivendi said they intend to combine the.

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Some things, no matter how wild and lacking in discipline, just make sense.

Big Satan's sole album, I Think...

I saw a whole bunch of movies over the Labor Day weekend mdash;I was trying to catch up on all the...

"Bulletproof" isn't going to convince any non-rockabilly fans to get tattoos and slick back their hair, but for those of us who are already greased up and ready to go, Rocker's latest disk is full of fire and fun.
There is a considerable variation among the computers, though most boast large hard drives and reasonably fast CPUs. Some are the current standard 802.

11b compatible. Others, such as the Dell Latitude D400, come with 802.11g.

Each month we publish our Forbes/Wolfe Nanotech Report. And on the back page of our monthly report we have..

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Cornwell takes this hypothesis and uses it to speculate on Sickert's frame of mind right before the marriage of his mentor, James Abbott McNeill Whistler.
Retailers use several methods, based in psychology, to get consumers to purchase their items.